Licensing for use and impact: Connecting policy with practice
How can licensing help research and innovation deliver greater impact?
This event brought together policymakers, knowledge and technology transfer professionals, researchers and licensing experts to explore how licensing practices can respond to today’s increasingly complex innovation landscape. Discussions examined how broader forms of impact can be recognised, how effective tools and approaches can be scaled, and what skills and policy support professionals need to translate research results into practical use.
The event was particularly relevant to those working in knowledge valorisation, technology transfer, research management, intellectual property, innovation policy and research funding.
| 9:30 – 10:00 |
Welcome coffee and registration
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| 10:00 – 10:20 |
Opening remarks
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| 10:20 – 11:05 |
Panel 1
What do we value in licensing?
This panel will explore how current research and innovation systems prioritise patents and economic value, and whether they adequately recognise licensing approaches that generate broader societal impact. It will examine how evaluation and funding frameworks could evolve to better reflect today’s innovation realities.
Moderated by Yasmina Isabel González Müller, Project Manager and Intellectual Property Specialist at the Office for Institutional Project Management (OGPI), University of Alicante |
| 11:05 – 11:50 |
Panel 2
From tools to practice and the need to scale effective licensing approaches
Focusing on practical implementation, this panel will discuss existing tools, templates and platforms that support licensing, including those developed by IMPAC3T-IP and other initiatives. It will explore what is needed to scale these approaches across institutions and enable more efficient pathways from research to use.
Moderated by Ed Maughfling, Head of Business Development, e-Lucid |
| 11:50 – 12:05 |
Coffee break
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| 12:05 – 12:50 |
Panel 3
Equipping professionals for new licensing realities
This panel will address the skills gap in knowledge and technology transfer, particularly in areas such as non-traditional IP, multi-stakeholder environments, etc. It will consider how policy and support mechanisms can strengthen the capacity of professionals to manage increasingly complex licensing scenarios.
Moderated by Laura Macdonald, Chief Executive, ASTP |
| 12:50 – 13:50 |
Networking lunch
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| 13:50 – 14:35 |
Panel 4
Licensing in complex scenarios: from policy ambition to implementation
This panel will examine how licensing strategies are applied in practice in complex contexts such as co-creation, crisis response or non-traditional IP. It will highlight where gaps remain between policy ambitions and on-the-ground implementation, and what is needed to better align the two.
Moderated by Janne Eskola, Vice President, Demola Global |
| 14:35 – 15:00 |
Conclusions & wrap-up
Concluding remarks, summarising key points, overview of IMPAC3T-IP’s achievements during the project’s lifetime, and what comes next.
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Location
Press Club Brussels Europe
Rue Froissart 95
1040 Brussels
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Livestream
The event will be livestreamed online. A link to it will be shared with registrants on the day of the event.
